One was always in front of the other. One ran forward, uttering a little cry, and the other followed, solemnly bowing and bowing. "You see," explained Anne, "the one in front, she's Mrs. She looks at Mr. Dove and gives that little laugh and runs forward, and he follows her, bowing and bowing. And that makes her laugh again. Away she runs, and after her," cried Anne, and she sat back on her heels, "comes poor Mr. Dove, bowing and bowing...and that's their whole life.英文原著 · 《The Garden Party》
There are many kinds of bows. In war two were used--the cross-bow and the long-bow. The cross-bow was meant at first for the defence of towns, like Genoa or the towns of Castile. So strength was more important than lightness, and the archer had time to take aim. It was a bow on a cross piece of wood, along which the string was drawn back peg after peg by mechanism. The bow was then held to the breast, and the arrow let off. It was clumsy, heavy, and expensive.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Sophronia would have liked to call him Joash, but her husband wouldn't hear of it. At length the father took to calling him "Dusenberry," and this nickname was adopted under protest. Captain Hiram sang the baby to sleep every night. There were three songs in the Captain's repertoire. The first was a chanty with a chorus of
John, storm along, storm along, John, Ain't I glad my day's work's done. The second was the "Bowline Song."
Haul on the bowline, the 'Phrony is a-rollin', Haul on the bowline! the bowline HAUL! At the "haul!" the Captain's foot would come down with a thump.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
``I will explain briefly,'' answered the doctor. ``You must know first that every perfect human being is provided with two sets of bowels; he has physical bowels and intellectual bowels, the brain being the latter. Hippocrates (since whose time the science of medicine has not advanced even the two stadia, five parasangs of Xenophon)-- Hippocrates, I say, discovered that the brain is subject to those very same diseases to which the other and inferior bowels are liable.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
An apple upon his head he set, And then his bow he bent, Six score paces they were out met, And thither Cloudeslie went; There he drew out a fair broad arrow; His bow was great and long; He set that arrow in his bow, That was both stiff and strong.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
BEFORE the servant could get to the priest's lodgings a visitor had applied there for admission, and had been immediately received by Father Rocco himself. This favored guest was a little man, very sprucely and neatly dressed, and oppressively polite in his manner. He bowed when he first sat down, he bowed when he answered the usual inquiries about his health, and he bowed, for the third time, when Father Rocco asked what had brought him from Florence.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Well, at least you were lucky to have him. Bow-wow, old friend. Bow-wow.美剧 · 《Friends》
But without the foundational work of Ebenezer Kinnersley, Warren de la Rue and James Bowman Lindsay, You wouldn't know Edison any more than you know Ebenezer Kinnersley, Warren de la Rue Or James Bowman Lindsay.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
- There's nothing linking...- He prescribed Ben Bowers oxycodone, and Ben Bowers died ofan oxycodone overdose.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Is observing the self-assembly of his Cheerios in his cereal bowl. is observing the self-assembly of his Cheerios in his cereal bowl.演讲 · 《Everyday inventions ~ Saul Griffith》